feature wish: notification when user clicked a link with the same hash value

[avodonosov]

Use case:

I have a man menu, every menu item is a link with different has value ( #info, #settings, #admin, etc.). When user click menu item, $.address.externalChange handler builds corresponding view with ajax.

Suppose user clicked #admin and he is presented administration page where he can navigate deeper to admin sub-views (the admin sub-views are created with ajax). The point is that when he navigates a sub-view, the browser address string doesn't not change.

Then I would like user to be able to click #admin menu item, to "return" from the sub-view, i.e. to see original admin view.

To implement this it would be good to have $.address.extenralChange callback to be invoked. Currently it is not invoked because the browser address string is #admin, and the menu item he clicked has the same href - #admin.

[theartoflogic]

This is a showstopper for me too. I would like to at least have the option to choose whether I should reload the page or not when clicking the same link.

Can you make it call the change() handler no matter if the user clicks the same link or not? Then we can check if it's the same URL and choose ourselves what we want to do with it.

[joksnet]

And this prevent the $.address.value($.address.value()); for realoding a page.

[joksnet]

--- a/src/jquery.address.js
+++ b/src/jquery.address.js
@@ -472,9 +472,6 @@
                     if (value == '/') {
                         value = '';
                     }
-                    if (_value == value && !_updating) {
-                        return;
-                    }
                     _justset = TRUE;
                     _value = value;
                     if (_opts.autoUpdate || _updating) {

Someone could explain me why this lines are necessary ? I'm using a this plugin without this lines, to enable reload a page.

[wnr]

I would also love to hear this. @asual, could you shed some light on this 3 years old issue please?